My Time With The N81 8GB

I received a N81 8GB from Wom World to trial and for the last 2 weeks, I have come to enjoy my time spent with it. I was so impressed with the box/packaging (if that’s what you would call it), that it came in, take a look at the following pictures….

The packaging was enough to get me excited! I was really surprised to see the Bose headphones. Being a musician, that was a definite plus!!!!

On to the phone……

The phone is built really solid.  I love the way it felt.  It didn’t feel cheap to me at all.  The slider was not wobbly, there was no creaking.  Overall the build quality was great.  Of course I never ever want to to drop a phone, but if this phone were to ever take a small fall, it feels as if it is strong enough to survive it.  Battery life was pretty impressive to me.  I was able to go about 2 days before needing to recharge.  Typing messages was not bad at all either, but I didn’t type too many, so I won’t really began to talk about that.  The camera is terrible though.  Having the N80, N93 and N95, I constantly took pictures.  I wasn’t too excited to take pictures with this phone.  I had a chance to test out the N-Gage 2.0 and really enjoyed it.  I wish I could have had more time with it, but 2.0 was released this week.  Not to worry though, i will be getting a N95-4 pretty soon and will have plenty of time to play around with it.

Being that there have been several reviews already on the phone and the fact that I am a gigging musician, I decided to focus this review on the music side of the phone…..

As a regular gigging musician, I am constantly getting new music to learn and since I really don’t like the idea of having to carry around two or even three devices, I love being able to load my music onto my phone and then listen to it whenever I need to.  For that reason, I have been carrying an 8GB iphone around for the last two months.  It has been very convenient too!  Being able to quickly play a song before a gig, to help me remember a song, has come in handy plenty of times.  So being that this was a phone with 8GB of storage and included some very nice headphones, it was time to put it to the test….

 

After loading songs onto the phone, I quickly went down to my basement, got on my set and put on some music.  I was so impressed with the sound quality!!!  The sound quality was so such much better than the iphone and even louder.  For me being louder was a plus.  Practicing with my drums, can sometimes drown out the sound from the iphone.  I never ran across that problem with the N81.  I shot a video with my E90 and want to show you the difference in sound quality and which phone produced louder volume.

 Which phone will win the sound battle???

 

 

Conclusion….

As you can see, the N81’s sound, blows the iphones sound out of the water.  The quality is definitely better, from songs to ringtones.  Overall I have been pretty impressed with this phone.  I don’t think that this is the phone for me (because of the camera mainly) or at least it could never be my main phone.  The phone has a 2 megapixel camera and in my test, I thought the camera on the iphone took much better pictures.  Would I recommend this phone to anyone?  Yes…I know a lot of people who would enjoy this phone. 

Based on sound, if I had to make a choice between the iphone and the N81 8GB, I would take the N81 8GB hands down.  I have really enjoyed my time with it…